From Diplomat Artist Buzz: Having survived captivity & sexual violence, they must not be met with further stigmatization but nurtured & healed by their families, communities, & world at large. — Read More —

In Erbil, which is seeing influx of displaced people from Mosul & neighbouring cities, the maternity hospital found needs have doubled since beginning of crisis, with more than 50 normal deliveries & up to 20 Caesarean sections every day.

Highly recommend this critical article by human rights activist, Bianca Jagger, who exposes a sanctioned & coordinated program with different Sri Lanka Security forces operating in secret camps for torture & sexual violence of both men & women which has been ignored in the global agenda.

Despite Burma having signed the United Nations’ Committee on Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) in 1997, Chin ethnic women (primarily Christian) are raped & used as a weapon of war sadly like so many places in the world like Central African Republic, Congo, & Bosnia & Herzegovina.